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soctheory-literature-positioning
Use when locating a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript in a tradition and conversation — naming whose theory you extend, challenge, or synthesize, and avoiding sibling-journal misattribution. Positions the argument; it does NOT build the concepts (soctheory-theory-construction) or frame the novelty (soctheory-contribution-framing).
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# Literature Positioning: Which Tradition, Which Conversation (soctheory-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The theoretical problem is set, but you cannot name the conversation it lives in
- Reviewers would ask "whose theory are you arguing with?"
- Your references read as a flat list rather than a positioned intervention
- You are unsure whether a famous paper you lean on was even published in ST (a real trap)
## Why positioning is decisive at ST
At a theory journal, the first reviewer question is *what tradition are you intervening in and
how?* ST work almost always enters one (or bridges two) of the live conversations in
sociological theory and makes a deliberate move within it: **extend**, **challenge**,